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...minute misgiving by the Badoglio Government almost snagged the parleys. The Marshal wanted no announcement of the armistice until after the main Allied landing in Italy. General Eisenhower replied with a 24-hour ultimatum: the Allies must fix the timing of the announcement, or Italy would suffer the full shock of Allied air power. The Marshal bowed. On Sept. 3, while Generals Eisenhower and Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander looked on, the Armistice was signed by U.S. Major General Walter B. Smith for the Allies, by General Castellano for Italy...
...French were harder on shell-shock cases, did not send them to rest homes nor promise them pensions, were able to send large numbers back to fight. When the British got tougher with their nervous cases, their cures increased...
...have had a de facto military alliance with Great Britain practically ever since the War of 1812. In the two principal cases since, when war was made on Britain, we went to her defense....The American people never before had such a shock as the one they had when they realized that Germany might capture the British fleet. You in this room remember as well as I do how everyone was chilled...
...used to be called "shell shock." Doctors now call it "traumatic war neurosis." The term "shell-shock" has been loosely used for symptoms ranging all the way from temporary nervousness and hysteria (e.g., a soldier thinks his arm is paralyzed but moves it when the doctor proves the reflexes are in working order) to permanent insanity. So far, about 5% of all World War II battle casualties and about 20% of the casualties returned to the U.S. have been nervous cases...
Company Easy, small but select, finds itself deep in the heart of Harvard. Coming into this sanctum of erudition from culturally sterile waste lands ranging from Chicago to the South Pacific was quite a shock...